CARS.COM — Audi says it will redesign its popular Q5 SUV sometime in 2016, and it's mulling the introduction of a Q2 micro-crossover. The automaker also announced that it's still on track to build a production version of the electric e-tron Quattro concept shown at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show, and it expects to launch the car in 2018. In total, Audi's lineup will include 60 different cars by 2020.
Related: Audi Talks of Self-Driving Cars, Q8 SUV at AutoConference L.A.
Not all of those cars will necessarily appear in the U.S., of course. We don't get international models like the A1 hatchback, RS Q3 SUV or RS 6 Avant wagon. But shoppers might get a crack at the Q2, an all-new model that Audi plans to launch internationally sometime in the 2016 calendar year. U.S. spokesman Brad Stertz told Cars.com today that he doesn't think Audi has decided whether to bring the Q2 to the U.S. yet, but "it would be under the Q3" in terms of size.
Though small, the Q3 — a subcompact SUV that competes with the Mercedes-Benz GLA-Class and BMW X1 — is still around 10 inches longer than a Nissan Juke, arguably the SUV that started the new subcompact SUV trend. So there is space for a pint-sized premium model. But that would make the Q2, like the Juke, a tiny SUV.
As for the Q5, Audi plans to build the redesigned SUV at a Mexico plant that's scheduled to open in the second half of 2016. Stertz said he thinks Audi will target a launch date later in the year, and the automaker "definitely" plans to sell it in North America. That's practically a given: Despite its considerable age, the outgoing Q5 (shown above) still outsold every other Audi in the U.S. by a wide margin through the first 11 months of 2015.
from Cars.com News http://ift.tt/1SoHrBs
No comments:
Post a Comment